WORCESTER Warriors' victory against Ampthill was one of the performances Matt Everard has felt most proud of to date.
Warriors enjoyed the perfect first half, crossing over four times to secure a bonus point before the whistle for the break blew, while Ampthill failed to score any points across the opening 40 minutes.
Warriors to see out the second half in strong fashion, ultimately claiming a 14-41 away victory and putting the set piece issues that had plagued them the week prior to bed.
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"I’m actually really, really proud of that performance – I think that’s one the proudest performances we have probably had all year," Everard told Worcester News after the final whistle.
"We played a game that we wanted to play, we imposed our style of rugby, what we spoke about in the week, what we trained, what I spoke about pre-game, what we visualised the game to be, we then went out and did it."
Having struggled in the set piece in the first half against Hartpury the week prior, Everard felt the scrum and maul were vastly improved this time out.
"Our set-piece was really physical and hard to deal with from our maul to our scrum, and we were hard to attack against.
"The scrum and the maul I thought was really dominant, which was great. Those are the tight parts of the game that I absolutely love and the lads want to keep growing and be able to impose themselves in, I was really proud of them."
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Everard explained that in the build up to this match, following a run of four consecutive defeats, Warriors focussed on themselves over their upcoming opposition more than ever before.
"What we did really well this week was really focus on us," he explained. "The most we have I would say.
"We will definitely continue to do that."
Warriors will return to home soil to host Doncaster Knights next Saturday (February 7), a side they lost to in agonising fashion, conceding in the final seconds in the reverse fixture.
"Doncaster are a good team with a lot of talent," said Everard. "They’ve got some rockstar names in the league who have consistently played really well for them and played really well against us last time so it will be another really tough challenge."
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